Hugh Hewitt
Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman who’s leading the polls for Republican Party nominee for president, is hitting back hard on the heels of an uncomfortable radio interview in which he was seemingly confused on foreign policy questions, taking to national TV to call out the host as unprofessional and biased.
The dispute began on Thursday, when Trump was asked about his views of the Quds and Iran.
“[These are] gotcha questions,” Trump said, to host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday, after a back-and-forth about the names of overseas’ leaders and the difference between the Quds and the Kurds.
On Friday on “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, Trump tried to clarify.
“And by the way, when you say Quds vs. Kurds, I thought he said Kurds, this third-rate radio announcer that I did the show [for],” Trump said, Politico reported. “It was like, ‘gotcha, gotcha.’ Every question was do I know this one and that one. You know, he worked hard on that. I thought he said Kurds.”
Trump also elaborated on his view of the U.S.-Kurds relationship he spoke of on Hewitt’s show.
On MSNBC, he doubled down and said: “By the way, I do think the Kurds, while we’re on it, I do think the Kurds are not being utlized properly and not being treated properly by us.”
Trump also called the Iran nuclear deal “disastrous” on several levels.
The businessman’s previous interview with Hewitt went something like this:
Hewitt: “Are you familiar with General Soleimani?”
Trump: “Yes but go ahead, give me a little, go ahead, tell me.”
Hewitt: “He runs the Quds Forces.”
Trump then said “Okay,” and added, a few seconds later, “The Kurds, by the way, have been horribly mistreated.”
Hewitt jumped in to clarify: “No, not the Kurds, the Quds Forces, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Forces.”
A short time later, Hewitt told Trump: “But on the front of Islamist terrorism, I’m looking for the next commander-in-chief, to know who Hassan Nasrallah is, and Zawahiri, and al-Julani, and al-Baghdadi. Do you know the players without a scorecard, yet, Donald Trump?”
And Trump responded, “No you know, I’ll tell you honestly, I think by the time we get to office, they’ll all be changed. They’ll all be gone.”
He also criticized Hewitt’s line of questioning as unfair.
Trump said: “I knew you were going to ask me things like this, and there’s no reason, because number one, I’ll find, I will hopefully find General Douglas MacArthur in the pack. I will find whoever it is that I’ll find, and we’ll, but they’re all changing, Hugh. You know, those are like history questions. Do you know this one, do you know that one. I will tell you, I thought you used the word Kurd before. I will tell you that I think the Kurds are the most under-utilized and are being totally mistreated by us. And nobody understands why. But as far as the individual players, of course I don’t know them. I’ve never met them. I haven’t been, you know, in a position to meet them. If, if they’re still there, which is unlikely in many cases, but if they’re still there, I will know them better than I know you.”
Hewitt shortly after said he didn’t “believe in gotcha questions.” Trump, however, came back swinging.
“Well, that is a gotcha question, though. I mean, you know, when you’re asking me about who’s running this, this this, that’s not, that is not, I will be so good at the military, your head will spin. But obviously, I’m not meeting these people. I’m not seeing these people.”
Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett Packard executive and a rising Republican candidate for president, spoke with Hewitt in a later interview and denied such queries were “gotcha questions.” She also expressed knowledge of the overseas’ leaders and said it was part and parcel of doing business with America’s allies, particularly Israel.
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